Another Mexico: A Conversation with Storyteller Sam Quinones

[felpaluche]

He must be full of stories to tell.

[baihbalm]

@profwito undefined variables like 'good' or 'bad' are not effective ways of forming an argument or labeling something you approve or disprove of. What's good for one person is not good for another. I agree with you about shantytowns and regulations, too bad we're talking about a narco state... little in the way of regulations stand in the way of the black market, which rules Cuidad Juarez. Makes the regulations far more devastating to the populous trying to make an honest living.

[ktmusa8]

What is the best way for Mexico to develop a more local governing mindset. Will they have to change a couple hundred years of centro-politics? It is really unfortunate what is going on in Juarez and N. Mexico.

[kubaniski]

has anyone noticed that Mexican politicians and movie stars are almost all white 

[baihbalm]

@kubaniski  Read Mexican History and you will eventually see why that is. Why are the heads of all banks white is what I want to know...

[kubaniski]

@baihbalm thats because most people in the states are white plus whites are more likely to go to collage and major in finance. And their not just all white but mostly Jewish.

[DeviousTelevision]

Egalitarianism, huh?

[megagagnon1]

@DeviousTelevision "Egalitarianism, huh?" Compared to Mexico. In Mexico, 26 families control 95% of the wealth. If you're poor, you stay poor.

[oilhammer04]

Proverbs 17:23  "A wicked man receives a bribe from the bosom to pervert the ways of justice." This, partly explains many of the Latin American countries. Now it is beginning to explain America.

[NAGGERNUTZ]

People are hitting the streets all over the world and governments are collapsing because citizens have had enough. They're tired of living in 3rd world conditions where they had no say in how they were ruled. What do Mexicans do? Run to another country.

[i2aymond]

@NAGGERNUTZ Your argument that they are cowards is bigotry. They leave everything they have ever known, their families, friends, whole life. They cross the border illegally, over deserts, across rivers, packed into trucks, to go to a country where they don't know the language and are viciously discriminated against by people like you. By voteing with their feet and leaving their home country they are fighting their third world conditions. My logic just beat your logic.

[NAGGERNUTZ]

@i2aymond - Take a handful of your logic and use it to lubricate your pecker. I'm no bigot. I'd hire a Mexican-American in a heart beat... IF he's a legal citizen. As I said before, people are hitting the streets protesting, overthrowing their governments world wide... except Mexicans. So using your logic, what happens to Mexico? Do they just run to America and let the country be taken over by drug cartels? Where do we run when the cartels come here? I just owned you.

[UnconformistSheep]

@NAGGERNUTZ "I'd hire a Mexican-American in a heart beat... IF he's a legal citizen."

Why do you find so important for government employees to bestow this "legal" status on a human being?

[scalp340]

I get what this guy is saying but its kinda one sided. i used to live down there. and most of why Juaraz exists is because of el paso.if america wasnt so close to Juarez and Juarez wasnt so close to el paso. everyone with any sense would live down south. and nobody from el paso would go to juarez. plus so many things are illegal and the cops are corrupt, and the opposite (compared to juarez) istrue for el paso. which is why you have the problems and the vast difference between the 2

[TombaFanatic]

@profwito

Government is better generally speaking when it's local.

It has a better sense of the issues its people are facing and if one local area fails, the others can learn from its mistakes. That being said, Juarez is probably failing due to stringent regulations. Whether those regulations are impossed by the local government or the national government, I don't know. If it's anything like America's "failing" cities, it's probably by both.

[nsolcis]

give mexicans back their guns and we'll see how the cartels fair then!

[cidrosmith]

Juarez is one of the most dangerous cities in the world, El Paso is one of the safest. Why?

[Zakdayak]

@cidrosmith I can't wait for your glorious answer.

[cidrosmith]

@Zakdayak Your mother lives in Juarez.

[Zakdayak]

Just cuz your mother's twat reminds each nightly visitor of their hometown Juarez doesn't give you the license to project now son. Its a victory 4 me since you didn't share your tremendous revelation which explains the differing crime rates in the border towns. You probably can't tell me anything about Juarez other than what a night in the city drunk tank smells like...once again by catching a wiff of your mother's cooch. Good luck using pillows to muffle out the noise of tonight's lovemaking.

[cidrosmith]

@Zakdayak Another fat loser who doesn't have life outside of his mother's basement. Here's you: Let's pick a fight with someone online because I'm so cool. Idiot.

[Zakdayak]

@cidrosmith : "Let's pick a fight with someone online because I'm so cool" Not exactly, more like: "Let's shut this fucking racist pig [thats you, son] up before his says somnething stupid because he thinks he's clever." Because really you should only really give advice on how to locate your local glory hole.

[cidrosmith]

@Zakdayak Racist? Son, I don't know if your stupid ass has spent much time in El Paso or Juarez ( I have), but there isn't much in the way of racial differences between the two cities. There are a few Anglos in El Paso, but the city is Hispanic. You stupid piece of trash.

[Zakdayak]

@cidrosmith Funny, I still haven't heard your glorious answer! But yeah, somebody who's been there might consider himself an expert...an expert who has nothing to say and just asks an "open" question! YEAH RIGHT, SON. LOL. Hey but thats ok, I refer to your mom's stinky cunt, her status as a human mattress, and your inability to offer anything of worth - and then you call me trash. WE"RE EVEN THEN!! Right?? LOL.

[cidrosmith]

@Zakdayak I don't have an answer, that's why I asked the question. It would mean a lot to me if you kept ranting. It would be glorious. You need to contact the employment office in your community, get a job, and move out of your mother's basement. She wiped her ass on your mouth when she shit you out her ass, I'm almost positive she's ready for you to be gone, but maybe she likes living in shit with you.

[Zakdayak]

@cidrosmith Ah! Thats much better! So sorry I said "Glorious answer" OH BOY. Hey thats OK. You'll learn.

[samlowrey63]

Property rights and an incorruptible court system to back up those rights are also what Mexico needs. Not so sure about his thesis regarding well funded local government. If what you have is TAKEN from you and the GOVERNMENT backs the crooks, you don't really have a foundation for a civil society.

[jbjumpback]

It would be wonderful if the U.S. had a country into which to dump our poor.

[pista9]

he took so many words out of my mouth, in méxico all

elections are about how much the goverment can give away

things, ALL PARTIES do the same. Like PAN in my state

hired a famous band (intocable) and gave away the

tickets.

libertarian ideas would be so beneficial for México

because people need to understand that nothing the

goberment gives you is free, and a ton of reasons more.

[Vald1971]

writer for LA times that's one strike against ya

[pista9]

"one village that became a popcicle seller, that are around all over méxico"

those are "la michoacana", and everybody in méxico knows about them

[matcotech]

What a journalist! Fascinating story.

[OnThatPowder]

interesting